From April 25 through May 2 2008, the PartyPoker.com World Open IV is to be launched in London, UK, and features a best running field headed by Mike Sexton of Ambassador of Poker according to this week’s company’s announcement. Providing odds on the event is PartyBets.com and claimed the sixteen to one favorite is the Irish Open champion Neil Channing. According to a company spokesperson, Mike Sexton is a superb contribution to the World Open front line although he plays in a round that comprises Juha Helppi, Barny Boatman, Jan Peter Jachtmann and Marc Goodwin and thus he’ll be pretty occupied. known personalities to take note such as Nick Slade, the latest PartyPoker.com European Open IV’s champ as well as John Tabatabai, Marty Smyth, Theo Jorgensen, Liam Flood, Pippa Flanders, Surinder Sunar, Roy Brindley, Thomas Bihl, Jon Magill, Jon Kalmar, Ian Frazer, Ross Boatman and Roberto Romanello, are also included in this year’s event. Later this year the event managed by Matchroom Sport is to be broadcasted on Channel Five in Britain and distributed across the globe. An eight thousand dollar buy–in by seventy two competitors includes out of a totaling five hundred and seventy six thousand dollar prize pool a first prize totaling quarter million dollars. In the previous year, Anthony Hardy, a forty five year old ex–Sidcup proprietor of a betting shop won at the last table which also included Ian Frazer, Ian Cox, David Rudling, Ram Vaswani, as well as Ian Woodley, the resulting second placed. While Lee Nelson triumphed in the inaugural event in 2005, the 2006 victor was Pippa Flanders. Moving on to the stage of semi–finals is performed by each winner of the twelve heats, and it will be the first time in the annals of the event, that the runners–up stand a chance at the table as they fight for the last two spots of semi–finals in the turbo rounds’ last heats. Posted on: April 12, 2008
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